Archive for the ‘anxiety’ Category
March 27th, 2010
How anxiety disorder effects the body. A short but very informative video.
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March 22nd, 2010
Having anxiety attacks is probably one of the most unnerving bodily feelings you can ever receive. One of the core tribulations with having anxiety attacks is that, it cannot actually be seen by anyone else, so you may feel totally lonely and by yourself.
Tons of times the individual who is suffering from an anxiety attack does not know what is going on, which contributes to the amount of the anxiety.
Having anxiety attacks can be soul destroying, it can in actual fact turn your life upside down. I have not got this from a book; I have lived with anxiety attacks for over 20years, also my Mum has suffered with anxiety attacks as well.
My anxiety attacks would happen out of the blue, I could be out shopping having a good time, then that dreaded mood of not feeling right would start to creep up on me, then that feeling would get stronger and stronger and before I knew it I would be having a major anxiety attack in the centre of a shop. I can tell you it is really frightening, but those of you reading this will have some sort of grasp of what i mean. That awful feeling where you begin to feel all hot and tense, your vision starts to go and you feel like the shop is closing in on you.
How I would depict my feeling is like this, I was aware of everything that was going on around me, but I felt like a part of me had withdrawn into myself, if that makes sense. For me I just needed quite, I could not handle it with anyone talking to me. I had to focus on what was taking place with me. I don’t know what I thought would happen but I just needed to gain control.
What I found really hard was trying to get my husband to be aware of what was happening to me. To try and get him to recognize how I was feeling and what having anxiety attacks was doing to me mentally, physically and emotionally. It was futile really; know one known’s what having anxiety attacks are like unless you have experienced them for yourself.
Tags: anxiety, anxiety attacks, anxiety causes, Fear, Having anxiety attacks, panic
March 21st, 2010
What extremely saddens me is that the sole treatment for anxiety and panic attacks the doctors are recommending is tablets. Do not get me wrong i have taken medication to assist me retreat to management of my anxiety and panic attacks. i am aware that taking medication only serves to mask the anxiety it is not actually a cure. Yes you may go weeks, months or even years without a anxiety or panic attack. However it can return back. It comes back because you have not treated the actual cause of the anxiety. Therefore, since most people opt for to see our doctor it can generally feel as if we are turning into an emotionless, medicated society. The thing is that prescription medications are not the only treatments for anxiety.
When you work out what’s inflicting your anxiety, you’ll possible find that you’ll notice a more effective treatment. I know from personal experience that it will be terribly hard and distressing to work through your anxiety, however it is worth it in the long run. You ought to know that external factors, such as work and home stress will cause us to feel moments of anxiety when they aren’t restricted, but why is it that some people will just accommodate this stress and others cannot? It’s because of our hormones and the balance of them in our bodies.
We have a tendency to all have moments that stress us out and cause us to feel stressed out or anxious. These moments can persist with us and leave us feeling worried over things, but if your body is creating the proper balance of hormones, it’s unlikely that these things will cause you to have a panic attack within the future. However, if your body isn’t creating enough dopamine, which is that the pleasure and youth hormone, and enough serotonin, which is the "feel good" hormone, then it’s likely that your body is creating an excessive amount of cortisol, that is the hormone that produces us more stress. This imbalance is most likely causing you to become depressed, anxious, sleepless and you may even be having panic attacks.
But it’s not just these factors that can contribute to you having anxiety, it could conjointly be that it runs in the family. Although it’s not been medically proven there are thousands of case studies that have been done on the family connection. For me my mother suffered with anxiety and panic attacks and i spent a chunk of my childhood observing this behaviour. Guess what i learnt that behaviour, i learnt to be anxious, i learnt to panic in stressful situations. I am not blaming my mum it is not her fault. It’s just a fact of life, that as kids wet are like sponges and absorb everything that is occurring around us.
Therefore it sort of made sense to me, if i learnt that behaviour then surely i might un-learn that behaviour. It’s owning what are your thoughts and feelings and letting go of the thoughts and feelings that aren’t yours. This doesn’t happen over night. However by being persistent and sticking at it, over time your thoughts do win through, you’ll replace recent behaviour patterns and replace them with new ones. Ones that will enhance your life not destroy your life.
Remember, anxiety treatments don’t all come in prescription form and they don’t seem to be all expensive or lifetime commitments, thus go searching a little bit and see what you can realize when it involves additional natural panic attack treatments that really treat the underlying problems therefore that you’ll be able to feel in management again.
Tags: anxiety, Anxiety Symptoms, anxiety treatment, Dealing with anxiety, Fear, panic
March 19th, 2010
Anxiety and panic attacks can be cause by many different things, such as stress, depression, grief and alcoholism. What ever it is caused by, the affect is that your mind is saturated with worrying and frightening thoughts. And these thoughts really do impact your life. Everyone who suffers from Anxiety and Panic Attacks knows only to well how frightening that panic mode can be. Coming to terms with the fact that it is not the intrusive thoughts that are responsible for your anxiety, but the way you react to those thoughts, that triggers your anxiety or Panic Attack.
For lots of anxious people, there home or a room in their home is a safe haven. But when the anxiety and panic invade these safe places, it can leave you feeling totally helpless and on your own. People who do not suffer with Anxiety or Panic Attacks have no conception as to how much these thoughts take over our lives.
Having Anxiety and Panic Attacks can really affect your self-esteem. People saying positive things to you have no real affect, but people saying negative things really hit you hard.
It works very much the same with your thoughts, when you have destructive or worrying thoughts, you tend to focus on them and not the positive and happy thoughts… and then so it goes… off into panic.
Learning to control our thoughts is a step towards beating Anxiety and Panic attacks. In my case I learned that these attacks couldn’t hurt me that was the hard part. I then learned that if I faced my thoughts and the things that made me anxious, I could take control again and not be crippled by my Anxiety Disorder.
Anxiety can be overcome, once you start to get an understanding of what is causing your anxiety, you can then learn some coping skills to help you over come your Anxiety and Panic Attacks.
Tags: anxiety, anxiety, Dealing with anxiety, Fear, irrational fear, Mental health, Panic Attacks, Panic attacks and anxiety attacks, phobia, Phobia Symptons, Relaxation, Relaxation Techniques, Self-Help
March 18th, 2010
For me anxiety and panic attacks go hand in hand. The reason I make this statement is because that was how it was for me, for many years. When I started to get anxious, I could not stop it going into a full blow panic attack.
The most frightening thing for me was that I never knew when I was going to have anxiety followed quickly by a panic attack. I could wake up in the morning feeling great and I could just be sitting watching television. Then that feeling of not feeling okay. This is really difficult to explain. But those of you who have anxiety and panic attacks will know what I mean.
It is just a strange feeling which just starts as a feeling, and then I would get anxious about that feeling, which then got stronger, which then lead to me having anxiety about that feeling. Then yes you guessed it, I would then go into a full blown panic attack. It’s crazy, but true and it is true for a lot of people who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks.
The most frustrating thing for me was that it’s not like having a physical illness that people can see and understand. Most of the time my friends and family where unaware of the fact that I was in an anxious state.
I gave up a long time ago trying to explain to them how I was feeling and what physical reactions where going on for me. If I could not understand it, then how could I expect them to understand? When I look back at how I was, and sometimes still can be. It does seem silly. But as silly as it may seem when you are in that situation it is very real and very frightening.
One last thing, if I had a penny for every time I was told to pull my socks up…then I would be rolling in money.
Tags: anxiety, anxiety, Dealing with anxiety, Fear, irrational fear, Mental health, Panic attacks and anxiety attacks, phobia, Phobia Symptons, Relaxation, Relaxation Techniques, Self-Help